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#71001
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It's official...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/71001/action/topic#71001
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Originally posted by: Warbler
I see all kinds of problems that could occur with electronic machines. Hackers for one. Power outages for another. Also computer systems crash and have other tech problems from time to time. But I don't see it as problem for African Americans or the elderly to use. As long as the interface is made easy enough to use for those among us that are not tech savy.


Our eletronic voting system:

Hackers: not really a problem, since the whole data goes through a highly protected encryption package, I really don't know how it works, techinically speaking, but it's pretty safe. Our tax declaration is sent over the internet with the same system, and so far there has been no problems at all.

Power outage: the eletronic voting machines, about twice the size of a telephone, can be operated by using batteries if needed. It's not a big machine, and the screen is a liquid crystal b&w one. There is one small loudspeaker that goes "beep" only. It's power consume is very, ver low.

Computers crashes: well it's not run on Microsoft, so it dosen't happen after the election is over. What happens sometimes, and it's decreasing since 1996 is voting machines breaking down for some reasons, mostly mishanded, droped to the floor, and so on. About 0.1% of the machines break down, and there are about 1 or 2 on every location for such ocorrences. Even if more break down, the voting is done manually, and since the checking of such votes is also done eletronically (optically), and since it represents around 0.01% of the votes, they get counted pretty quickly and summed up with the eletronic votes.

Dumb people: well, freaking NAKED INDIANS voted on that damn thing (indians, the REAL ones, can vote only if they want to). But yes, we had some problems with the elderly people. In 2002, for some weird reason, elderly people everywhere got dumb, and they took literally minutes to vote - it takes no more than 20 seconds, depending on how many people you are electing. It didn't happen this year, and somehow everyone learned how to press 2 buttons to choose your candidate and a green one to confirm your vote.

What could be done in the US:

1- The presidential election gets regulamented and control by the federal government, so it's run the SAME way everywhere.

2- Organize the registered voters and specify clearly their voting locations. Don't do it 2 weeks before the election, do it years before.

3- Give a 2 digit number for every single party. Democrats can be, like, 10, and republicans 20, and comunists 30, and green party 25, and sci-fi book readers party number 42, and so on. Reserve numbers 80 to 99 for testing and educational use. I'm sure there are less than 79 parties in the US.

4- On election day, the person goes to where she is set to vote, press the two digits - a picture of the candidate and his name will appear onscreen - and he pressed green if he wants to confirm, or red if he wants to correct that.

5- I'm not sure how congressmen are elected in the US, but over here they have the 2 digits from his partie, plus 2 or 3 more unique digits. If I was a democract candidate, I could be number 10123, or 10455, or 10666. When you get to vote for him, you press his numbers.

6- After election is over, each state gathers the information from the voters by a intranet or internet.

About the costs: I'm am positivly sure the costs of such an organized, equiped election are LOWER than the costs of a unorganized, manual election that takes weeks to resolve and causes many errors and different interpretations. We had this applied here in Brazil because it proofed to be less expansive than our old manual way. Besides, we're freaking Brazil, if we can afford it, so can the United States of America.
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#70777
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A response to the "They're His Movies" arguement
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/70777/action/topic#70777
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Originally posted by: Kaiju Eiga
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Case in point: The Devil took Him to Jerusalem, to the highest point of the Temple and said, "If you are the Son of God, jump off! For the scriptures say, 'He orders His angels to protect you. And they will hold you with their hands to keep you from striking your foot on a stone.'" Jesus responded, "The Scriptures also state, 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.'" Matthew 4:5-7 or Luke 4:9-12.


I had this ilustrated bible when I was a kid, and in that translation Jesus and the devil are in the edge of a cliff, and the ilustrator might have been a SW fan, because it looked like Jesus and the devil were at the edge of the desert cliff looking at Mos Eisle (cant spell) down there.

"And than Jesus went to toshi station to pick up some power convertors." - hey perhaps Jesus was a Jedi.

OK now my passport to hell has been sealed and approved by God himself. "SLAM! Next!"
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#70769
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It's official...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/70769/action/topic#70769
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Apart from the electoral college thing and the choice of not to vote, which I strongly disagree, there should be a national voting system in the US. It is possible to do so, in Brazil we have electronic voting since 1996, it works the same everywhere, it's easy to use, fast, and error-proof. We get the results of an election, down to the last vote, in 6, 7 hours; depending on the city it takes only 1 or 2 hours after the election is over. Why can't the same thing be used in the USofA, at least in the presidential election, a national, integrated eletronic system. I mean, the laws that rule a persidential election should be federal laws...
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#70705
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It's official...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/70705/action/topic#70705
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Originally posted by: motti_soL
im sad to say but the USA is not a democratic country...


Try to avoid all the politicalities on this post and clean it up as much as I can.

It isn't a democracy, but it's not that "sad"; it's just the ways the government acts in the US, and the way the laws and the constitution were written make it a republic, not a democracy. The UK is not a democracy, it's a parlamentary kingdom, Spain is not a democracy, yet these countries and the USof A are not a democracy in the dictionary meaning of democracy, but if you look into it, well, there's a lot of democracy fundaments there, such as free elections and free speech, even though there is a electoral college and a patriotic act.
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#70338
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Changes in 2004 DVDs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/70338/action/topic#70338
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Originally posted by: jimbo
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Originally posted by: Kam
Princess Leia falling for the rogue Solo is FAR more believable than Queen Amidala falling for the Whiner Skywalker.

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She likes his lightsaber if you know what I mean.


So, basically, what you're saying is that the plot and characters of Star Wars are no better then the plot and characters of a cheap porn flick.
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#70335
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Bowling for Coruscant
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/70335/action/topic#70335
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Originally posted by: D0CT0R_W40
We definately have enough people that can get interviews done, but what about other footage? Basically anything we want to say needs footage to go with it.

Does anyone have any footage that we could fit in for voice-overs?


We need as much GL interviews as we can get. Hopefully we can have him contradicting himself.

We also need some interviews from crewmembers, need some footage from all Star Wars versions, and the usual stuff, such as the famous line outside the theater footage from 1977, images from posters, from ads, and so on...
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#70333
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Are we wasting our lives?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/70333/action/topic#70333
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I never let the fantasy world from books, movies or TV get into my life: I watch 2 or 3 hours of TV per week (one hour of discovery channel at saturdays, half hour of fox on sundays, 10 to 20 minutes of local news every day), I haven't seen a movie in a long time, and I stoped reading books lately, as I stoped my business travels for a while and I'm only able to read at hotels and airports.

Yet, when I'm watching Star Wars, or I'm reading Hitchiker's Guide or whatever, sometimes I think to myself "Why am I doing this? Why am I spending money and taking time out of my schedule to admire something false, some unreal world? Why do I love those geek things? Why do I enjoy being such a nerd?" - Have any of you ever feel guilty or bad about it? Did you ever think about it?
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#70242
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I'm doing a comparison - opinions please!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/70242/action/topic#70242
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Originally posted by: Darth Justin
I think the major changes to the final battle are primarily in the new digital shots, but there is that audio issue where the music is drowned out ("I'm gonna cut across the axis and try and draw their fire!")

Oh, and the Biggs scene of course.


There's still something no one was able to answer me, and I cannot check: was the final battle changed for the 2004 DVDs? It felt different from any other version I've seen...
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#70241
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It's official...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/70241/action/topic#70241
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Originally posted by: jimbo
Why did I not post yesterday. You probably thought I was getting some.


Yes, Jimbo, I was wondering exactly that. "Geez, I bet Jimbo is having sex right now", I thought to myself yesterday.


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Originally posted by: jimbo

Unfortunitly not true but I did something almost as cool. I saw a speech by George W Bush. It was a great speach. It shows why he is fit to be our commander and chief and John Kerry is not.


Need... to... control myself... never to... post political thoughts... again...
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#70177
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Are we wasting our lives?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/70177/action/topic#70177
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Bossk I didn't mean us here, at this forum. When I'm at work I leave the forum on an mozilla browser open (as well as other 24 applications and 11 browser windows I use at the same time), and I post whenever I feel like taking a break from ERPs configurations and SQL queries. I'm pretty sure it's the same thing for anyone here.

What I meant as an example was, generaly speaking, every single movie or series fan there is. Star Wars, Star Trek, whataver it is... Don't you think we generally spend too much time on fantasy, on unexistent things, such as movies and sci-fi in general? We all spend money and time of our lifes in Star Wars, or any other thing, did we LOSE this time of our actual lifes?

BTW, don't worry Jay, I don't log in, so even though I leave the browser opened all the time, it's not using the session object from your server.